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Remember what Barack Obama said about Hillary Clinton's health plan?
"Hillary's health care plan forces everyone to buy insurance, even if you can't afford it…and you pay a penalty if you don't."
Welcome to Obama Care:
- Require every American to buy a health insurance plan that will be designed in Washington and (through time) be shaped and molded by special interest pressures or pay a hefty tax.
- Cause millions of families to move from private coverage to Medicaid and S-CHIP programs (where health care access is much more limited).
- Cause millions of Americans to obtain insurance in an artificial market (the 'Exchange'), where insurers will have perverse incentives to underprovide to the sickest patients.
- Nationalize the private health insurance marketplace by effectively outlawing a real market for health care risks.
But unlike Hillary's plan, this bill has two additional harsh features:
- A 35 percent tax on private health insurance -- initially targeting "Cadillac" plans, but eventually reaching all plans.
- An employer play-or-pay mandate that is effectively an implicit tax as high as 26 percent or more on the wages of middle-income workers.
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